Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (French: Rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver, commonly called the Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv: \"Vel' d'Hiv Police Roundup / Raid\"), was a Nazi directed raid and mass arrest of (non-French) Jews in Paris by the French police, code named Opération Vent printanier (\"Operation Spring Breeze\"), on 16 and 17 July 1942. The name \"Vel' d'Hiv Roundup\" is derived from the nickname of the Vélodrome d'Hiver (\"Winter Velodrome\"), a bicycle velodrome and stadium where a majority of the victims were temporarily confined. The roundup was one of several aimed at eradicating the Jewish population in France, both in the occupied zone and in the free zone. According to records of the Préfecture de Police, 13,152 Jews were arrested, including more than 4,000 children. They were held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in extremely crowded conditions, almost without water, food and no sanitary facilities, as well as at the Drancy, Pithiviers, and Beaune-la-Rolande internment camps, then shipped in rail cattle cars to Auschwitz for their mass murder. French President Jacques Chirac apologized in 1995 for the complicit role that French policemen and civil servants served in the raid."@en }
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- Vel_dHiv_Roundup abstract "The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (French: Rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver, commonly called the Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv: \"Vel' d'Hiv Police Roundup / Raid\"), was a Nazi directed raid and mass arrest of (non-French) Jews in Paris by the French police, code named Opération Vent printanier (\"Operation Spring Breeze\"), on 16 and 17 July 1942. The name \"Vel' d'Hiv Roundup\" is derived from the nickname of the Vélodrome d'Hiver (\"Winter Velodrome\"), a bicycle velodrome and stadium where a majority of the victims were temporarily confined. The roundup was one of several aimed at eradicating the Jewish population in France, both in the occupied zone and in the free zone. According to records of the Préfecture de Police, 13,152 Jews were arrested, including more than 4,000 children. They were held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in extremely crowded conditions, almost without water, food and no sanitary facilities, as well as at the Drancy, Pithiviers, and Beaune-la-Rolande internment camps, then shipped in rail cattle cars to Auschwitz for their mass murder. French President Jacques Chirac apologized in 1995 for the complicit role that French policemen and civil servants served in the raid.".